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خيش

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns coarse, loosely woven fabrics, often made from flax or other fibers. It also extends to the act of extracting or emptying something from a container, and a sense of thinness or coarseness in texture.

Derived headwords

الخَيْشnoun
  1. 1.
    Coarse fabricboth

    Thinly woven but coarsely threaded fabrics, typically made from flax fibers or other rough materials. They could also be made from animal sinews.

أَخْيَاشnoun
  1. 1.
    Plural of coarse fabricboth

    The plural form of الخيش, referring to multiple pieces or types of coarse fabric.

خَيْشَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Thinness, coarsenessclassical

    A quality of being thin or coarse in texture, referring to the nature of the fabric.

خَاشَverb
  1. 1.
    To empty, extractclassical

    To take out or empty what is inside a container.

Parallel reading

الخَيْش: ثياب رقاق النسج غلاظ الخيوط تتخذ من مشاقة الكتان ومن أردئه، وربما اتخذت من العصب، والجمع أخياش
Al-khaysh: thinly woven but coarsely threaded fabrics, made from flax fibers and other rough materials, and sometimes made from sinews, the plural of which is akhyash.
وأبصرت ليلى بين بردي مراجل، ... وأخياش عصب من مهلهلة اليمن
And I saw Layla between two cloaks of marajil, ... and coarse fabrics of sinew from the worn Yemen.
وفيه خيوشة أي رقة
And in it is khayshah, meaning thinness.
وخاش ما في الوعاء: أخرجه
And he emptied what was in the container: he took it out.